Table 1 Demographics of sites and participating sites
From: Research capacity of Australian and New Zealand emergency medicine departments
Characteristics of sites | Total sites number | Responses number (%) |
|---|---|---|
Regions | ||
Australian Capital Territory | 2 | 1 (50%) |
New South Wales | 37 | 26 (70%) |
New Zealand | 18 | 13 (72%) |
Northern Territory | 2 | 2 (100%) |
Queensland | 26 | 24 (92%) |
South Australia | 7 | 6 (86%) |
Tasmania | 2 | 2 (100%) |
Victoria | 26 | 25 (96%) |
Western Australia | 13 | 13 (100%) |
Aust. Inst. of Health and Welfare, hospital classifications | ||
(New Zealand) | 18 | 13 (72%) |
Private | 13 | 12 (92%) |
Large regional | 21 | 20 (95%) |
Medium regional | 2 | 2 (100%) |
Small/medium regional | 6 | 5 (83%) |
Major | 30 | 26 (87%) |
Large metropolitan | 27 | 24 (89%) |
Medium metropolitan | 10 | 8 (80%) |
Specialist children’s | 6 | 2 (33%) |
Age of patients | ||
Adults and paediatric | 121 | 105 (87%) |
Adults | 5 | 5 (100%) |
Paediatric | 7 | 2 (29%) |
ACEM site classifications | ||
Major referral | 38 | 31 (82%) |
Rural/regional base | 45 | 38 (84%) |
Urban district | 50 | 43 (86%) |
Hospital education accreditation time for each ACEM trainee/resident | ||
6 months | 37 | 32 (86%) |
12 months | 35 | 29 (83%) |
18 months | 19 | 12 (63%) |
24 months | 42 | 39 (93%) |
Total | 133 | 112 |